Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ675970
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-1064-6051
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Why Don't You Collage That?
Root, Robert
Writing On the Edge, v12 n1 p21-26 Fall-Win 2000-2001
Proposes that teaching writing as a process will remain the best way to teach writing. Contends that determining the shape of the material is an important element of writing. Discusses the segmented essay, or collage. Concludes that this assignment helps students wrestle with the truth of their experience or their evidence and encourages them to discover a form. (PM)
Descriptors: Collage, Essays, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Student Motivation, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
Writing on the Edge, Campus Writing Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. Web site: http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/compos/woe/default.html.
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Theme: Creative Nonfiction.
